Label-holder



(No Model.)

- J. F. BURGD/ORP.

LABEL HOLDER. Q

Patented June 6'. 1882,

ATENT Qrrieh.

JOHN F. euaenoar, or BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

LABEL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,883, dated June 6, 1882. Application filed March 3, 1882. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, JOHN F. BURGDORF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, county of Erie, and State of New York, have made certain Improvements in a Reversible Label-Holder, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to a metal reversible label-holder in which a label or card printed on both sides, or two single cards having a different address on each, may be slipped in the holder, which, being hinged to a shippingpackage, on one side that is uppermost will show the label with the address of the consignee thereon, or the shipper, as the case may be, the free end of the holder being fastened down temporarily by a headed nail or tack or other simple means. When the package has been emptied the holder is swung over, disclosing the address of the shipper to whom it should be returned. This is fastened down and the package sent back.

The object of this invention is to do away with single labels or cards, which are tied, wired, ortacked to such packages as are usually returned to the shippers, such as oyster-tubs, butter-packages, fruitcrates, 850.; and the invention consists of a reversible hinged labelholder of metal, with open frame, into which an address, card, or label can he slid and there held, and hinged and fastened by the hinge to any shipping-package that is returnable to the shipper, all as hereinafter fully explained.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan of a tub or barrel with-my label-holder attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective of a box with my label-holder thereon; and Fig. 3 is a detail in perspective, showing double lips or grooves each side.

A represents the top of a box or tub, to which is attached the metal holder B, made of a single piece of suitable metal, with a lip,

a, turned up at the end, and the sides turned over to form lips or grooves b b. The base of the holder B is rounded over and a spindle, 0, set or fastened therein, the ends projecting a little and setting into staples or screw-eyes d d, or other suitable contrivances that can be readily fastened to a box or other package, and which not only confine the metal holder 13 thereto, but act as a hinge, allowing the holder to swing over and back to display either side. The center of this holder will be usually cut out, so that a label or card'insertrd in the lips or grooves b b will plainly show from either side, whichever side is uppermost, Fig. 1 showing the address-card of the consignee with the holder swung down to the left, and Fig. 2 showing the address of the consignor to whom the package should be returned, the holder fastened down' at the right. These labels or cards thus set in a holder will last a long time, and can be used until worn out or defaced. The lips or grooves b b will be formed on both sides, as in Fig. 3. The end lip, a, is to prevent the card getting out there, and it will be slid in at the other end. As the end which holds or makes the hinge is raised up, this prevents the card or label slipping out at that end after it has been forced into the slides orlips b b. When the right label is uppermost the frame will be fastened down by a headed tack or a catch or other device; but that forms no part of the present application.

This holder will be found economical by saving expensive labels, which are now necessarily torn from-the packages when they reach their destination.

Instead of using a label for every-shipment and another for the return of the package, it

is intended to have a card permanently fixed in one side of the frame, with the address of the shippers thereon. The card in the other side of the frame, intended for regular con signees, can be kept permanently in the frame or may be removed as required by the ship per, who will furnish the cards, and which will be used until worn out or illcgibleif By havinga printed card on each side, placed there by the shippers, mistakes through mi sdirecting cannot be made, thus making a sure delivery of the consignment, preventing loss of crates, &c., and a sure return of the package to the consignor. There'is also a considerable saving of time and labor innothaving to address and fasten a label to the package every time it is sent, as well as a saving of tacks and hammering them.

I claim- A label-holder consisting of an open metallic reversible frame, B,-adapted to be attached to a shipping-package and to swing on a hinge, and to have its sides and one. end In witness whereofI have hereunto signed bent over to form lips or grooves a b b, and my name in the presence of two subscribing 10 with corresponding lips or grooves formed on Witnesses. the reverse side of the holder, adapted to hold 4 T 5 labels or address-cards, one side being for the I I JOHN BU RGDORF' address of the consignor and the other side for Witnesses: the consignee, substantially as shown, and for J. R. DRAKE, the purpose specified. T. H. PARSONS. 

